Border agent, 8 passengers injured as truck overturns

San Diego 
A Border Patrol agent and eight suspected illegal immigrants suffered minor injuries when the agent's truck overturned Thursday night about 40 miles east of San Diego, a patrol spokesman said.

The accident occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Kitchen Creek Road south of the Sunrise Highway to Mount Laguna, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The agent, driving through the Cleveland National Forest, was transporting the eight detainees to a Border Patrol station when he swerved to avoid hitting a mountain lion, an agency spokesman said Friday. The truck rolled and came to a stop upside down.

The agent and the eight detainees were evaluated for injuries at a hospital. No one was seriously hurt, the spokesman said.